[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[JF Mezei]

David Froble wrote:

> You state this as fact.  Can you name one place that began a port off HP-UX solely because 
> of the little spat between HP and Oracle?  just one, that's all that I'm asking.  No 
> conjecture, real facts.

I can't name one, mostly because I am not really in that industry
anymore since there is no VMS employment left. However, following HP, I
can tell you that BCS sales are down 34% year over year if I remember
correctly. HP blames the Oracle uglieness for this. Meg Whitman stated
in an early conference call that there was nothing that could be done to
stop the drop in BCS sales and that HP was pinning its hopes on
rebuilding BCS with Project Odyssey.

Combine this with the consistent messages from HP over the years "no, we
won't port HP-UX/VMS/NSK beyond IA64" and "we'll support the VMS
installed base" (instead of we'll continue to develop VMS and grow its
installed base) and you get a very good picture that HP has been
planning this for quite some time.

The Oracle bit simply precipitated things.